"Google have launched MapMaker, a kind of faux OpenStreetMap where they own all the data and you’re only allowed to map in certain Freedom Of Speech Zones [...] The terms of use are hilarious - the bottom line seems to be that Google ends up owning excusively the entire aggregate work, but it is your fault if anything goes wrong [...] If you contribute to Google MapMaker, you are contributing to
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Linux Users: Why So Serious?
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Despite coming from a very rich and early history, linux OS consumer market share is less than 1%; and the community more divided than ever. What are we doing wrong?
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Jamison Young
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"Jamison Young is a musician who records endlessly and plays live as often as he can. Young releases all his music under a CC licence, some through ‘fairplay’ label (and former Featured Commoner) Beatpick, who helped get Young’s track 'Memories Child' into the soundtrack for new feature film 'The X-Files: I Want to Believe'.
Read more »Ubuntu Netbooks vs. Mobile Internet Devices: What’s the Difference?
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Sorry if I’m the only person who’s confused about Canonical’s mobile Linux strategy. The company has at least two Ubuntu software projects — one for Netbooks, the other for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) — that sound strikingly similar. So what’s the difference between Ubuntu for Netbooks and Ubuntu for MIDs? Canonical gave me some answers during OSCON 2008.
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Chapters meeting, Sunday 8pm Eastern
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"We will be having an online meeting of all Students for Free Culture chapters this Sunday, July 27, at 8pm EDT [see the fixed time around the world], in our IRC channel #freeculture at irc.freenode.net. If you are a member of a chapter, we want you to attend! Bring your free culture friends along :) ..."
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Would a chic Linux seduce the masses?
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Linux has lived a long life of stability and sturdy usability, but what if the underpinnings of that strategy fell away and the developer community were to welcome an influx of open source designers focused on producing the most pleasant and intuitive interface imaginable.
Read more »Bert Burgemeister, Lisp Hero of the Day
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"Common Lisp Quick Reference is a free booklet with short descriptions of the thousand or so symbols defined in the ANSI standard. It comes with a comprehensive index.
Read more »Ubuntu to unveil new version of its Launchpad community next week
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A year after creating an online open-source software development community to take on SourceForge.net and other rivals, the development team at Ubuntu Linux will be the first to admit that it still has a long way to go to achieve the popularity of its competitors.
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An Emacs language mode creation tutorial
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" Pre-Intro about the resurrection of this tutorial: This page is the resurrection of the original 'Emacs language mode creation tutorial' that once upon a time lived at... I resurrected it via archive.org and updated most of the outdated links, especially the ones into the emacs lisp manual. So everything after this Pre-Intro is originally written by Scott Andrew Borton, modulo bugfixes.
Read more »Kernel space: Full disclosure for security holes
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Linux developers fix kernel security holes out in the open. Is a bug a bug, or do security-related fixes deserve special treatment?
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Happy 10th birthday, Mandriva Linux
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Yes, today - July 23rd, 2008 - is the tenth anniversary of the release of Linux-Mandrake 5.1, the very first public release of what is now Mandriva Linux. It was versioned 5.1 as it was a fork of Red Hat 5.1 (it was more or less RH 5.1 with KDE 1.0 added).
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Can the Linux desktop best the Mac desktop?
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Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu Linux, wants desktop Linux to "shoot beyond the Mac." Can it?
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Nautilus Tips and Tricks
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Nautilus is the graphical file manager (along with a few other nice features) in GNOME. Most users only use the bare minimum features of Nautilus (including me, as I’m mainly a console jockey) and don’t realize how powerful and flexible Nautilus truly is.
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Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth: We can surpass Apple in two years
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Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has big dreams for Linux. That shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who's been following the progress of Ubuntu, which releases a major update every six months and keeps getting more and more user friendly. But user friendly is just the beginning. Shuttleworth wants Linux to be prettier too.
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Jim Zemlin at OSCON: The Mysterious Work of the Linux Foundation
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Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation, talked with O'Reilly News at OSCON, the O'Reilly open source convention.
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